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Using Unoccupied Aerial Systems to Collect Dolphin Health Data
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Dolphins are adapted to high saline waters and prolonged exposure to low salinity can lead to negative health effects. Their presence in the ...
Protocols for Conducting Dolphin Capture-Release Health Assessment ...
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The Bottlenose Dolphin Health and Risk Assessment (HERA) Project, initiated in 2003, is a collaborative effort between the National Ocean Service’s ...
Photographs of Stranded Dolphin with Lesions Emphasizes Diseases of ...
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It is known to affect bottlenose dolphins in the Atlantic Ocean (see ScienceDirect summary). The disease could also be that of Paracoccidioidomycosis ...
East Coast Estuarine Dolphins Are Separate Species
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A collaborative study found that East Coast estuarine dolphins are a separate species, distinct from the offshore form of common bottlenose dolphins ...
New Research on Microplastics in Marine Mammals and Human Health Risk ...
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Dolphins are a well-studied sentinel species, meaning they can provide an e arly indication of what’s going on in our environment and what it may mean ...
Coastal Marine Mammal Stranding Assessments
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The reduced fish abundance made dolphins more susceptible to fishery interactions as they searched for alternative food resources. We plan to conduct ...
DATA/REPORT DETAILS - NCCOS Coastal Science Website
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Dolphins were classified into one of three ranging patterns (Coastal, Sound, or Estuary) based upon telemetry data. Coastal dolphins (likely members ...
Study Reveals Link Between Dolphin Skin Disease and Climatic Factors
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Skin lesions on coastal dolphins are associated with water that’s colder and has lower salinity, say researchers at the National Centers for Coastal ...
Scientists Recognized for Role in Assessing Dolphin Mortalities
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Of the dolphins that have been tested, approximately 96 percent were positive for morbillivirus, the same virus that killed at least 750 dolphins ...
Graduate Student to Research Historical Dolphin Health Indicators
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Skin lesions on bottlenose dolphins are geographically widespread and highlyprevalent; however, factors contributing to lesion occurrence and ...
Where is all the Brevetoxin in Florida Dolphins?
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After over 500 bottlenose dolphins washed ashore during a decade of Florida red tides, puzzled scientists measured little to no brevetoxin in them. An ...
Successful Preliminary UAS Flights Collect Dolphin-blow Microbiome ...
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However, collecting blow from smaller dolphins in an estuarine environment has and has rarely been attempted, and proven challenging. With the help of ...
Persistent Organic Pollutants Unlikely Cause of Dolphin Health Issues ...
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A remote biopsy sample is collected from a bottlenose dolphin. Credit: NOAA. NCCOS scientists reported that persistent organic pollutants (POPs) were ...
First Record of Microplastics in North American Bottlenose Dolphins ...
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NCCOS and academic partners have published a new methodology for extracting microplastics from gastrointestinal tracts of small cetaceans, such as ...
Brucellosis in Stranded SC Bottlenose Dolphins Coincides with Calving ...
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NCCOS tested 282 stranded dolphins in South Carolina for brucellosis, caused by the bacterial pathogen Brucella ceti.Nearly 32% tested positive ...
Bottlenose Dolphin Blood Gene Expression Indicator of Health
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NCCOS scientists recently described the blood transcriptome of bottlenose dolphins with collaborators at Dolphin Quest in Hawaii. This study ...
More Complete Dolphin Genome Could Improve Assessments
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Better quality dolphin genome data could improve dolphin population assessments, inform on the presence of environmental contaminants and the safety ...
Preliminary report on bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncates) uterine ...
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The objective of this preliminary study was to determine the feasibility of detecting similar vascular changes in the endometrium of known-aged female ...
First microplastics discovered in common bottlenose dolphins
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First Record of Microplastics in North American Bottlenose Dolphins Published About NCCOS NCCOS delivers ecosystem science solutions for stewardship ...
Assessing movements of three buoy line types using DSTmilli loggers ...
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A study was conducted in October 2006 in the Charleston, South Carolina area to test the movements of three different buoy line types to determine ...